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(Continued: from Page 10) Iris left him-gone! The thought her excitement was so great that!

was being hammered into his she was literally swept off her She admitted that she no long-brain. yet he could not grasp its feet. How wonderful was the er loved Dick, that he had killed trae significance. The blow stun-thought of having something to her love. Her soft eyes widened ned him. He tried to think and to loves tiny, helpless child that and darkened with pain and her reason coherently, but he was like would need all the care and pro- black hair accentuated the pallor a blind man groping through ef her imaginative face. A mist world of darkness, and searching worked harder than ever sitting tection she could give it. She dimmed her vision. She put up a in vain for a way out of the black up until late in the night in an band and blinked away a tear. horror that overwhelmed him. She sighed and thought

effort to write a greater number of the Iris gone! He sat on the bed of stories. The months wore re days before she had met him. She and bowed his head over his hands. eatlessly had been very happy in the flat It couldn't be.

LOS ANGELES. NEW YORK. Gradually her!

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and Hanotube her girl friend, for they

were now more than anything on earth; laid hold of her heart-would she bound together by a strong bond wanted the soft feel of her arms

die? Shudderingly she placed Pres. Coolidge

Pres. Jackson Midnight May 22 Pres. Taft of affection and a marvellous un-around his neck and the soothing her hands over her face, but she

Pres. McKinley Pres. Hoover derstanding. She had been

Free Grant free touch of her little fingers in his could not put the terrible thought

Pres Pierce to write to her beart's content hair.

Pres. Jeferson He wanted her to comfort from her. She was entirely unfit

Pres. Coolidge and had made quite à good him in his distress: be

Jres. Jackson. wanted to cope with the fear that now) Living. Now, owing to her mar-the essential Iris. Over him there obsessed her. She began to want riage and her household

duties, surged the remembrance of her Dick with all the desperate long- her earnings had decreased to al-tenderness and upon his stiff lipsing of her soul She thought of most half. She gulped and tried came dear pet names-names which his tenderness and protection, and to stile the fresh burst of sob-close association had made doubly the awful

of loneliness bing that threatened to overwhelm precious. He 531 Tery still frightened her. her.

shoulders stooping, chin sunk up- "Dick," she whispered, "if only "If only," she thought unhap-on his chest, gazing at the floor I had not been foolish; if only If pily, "if only I could

go away with & fixed, unhappy stare, had made allowances for your where I could be at peace, where Crumpled in his clenched hand faults, we might have been happy there would be no Dick to hurt was the ominious missive Slowly to-day." Ime or to and fault with

mehe spread it out upon his knee and She felt sure that he would where I could spend my life writ-read it again.

never want her again. The shock Yes, she had gone! There was and the humiliation of her de- land of romance which marriage no doubt of it. She had left him parture would have delivered a itself has denied me.”

and he had driven her to it. He death-blow his

to

Jove. It was with a heavy heart that had held a bit of heaven in his clenched her teeth. "No, whatever She Dick turned his steps homeward hands and had recklessly throws happened she could not turn to Bombay, Marseilles & London on the following evening. Marseilles, Havre, London. Ham had exhibited a cold. unapproach-self. He might have been kinder, him she had tried to concentrate Iris it away. Silently he accused him her husband. Ever since leaving burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull,

able manner towards him at break-more considerate. He wanted her on her work. Fearing to be dis Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-fast that morning and

now as he had never wanted any covered, she avoided all those whe burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. been too proud to break down her thing before. She had become had known her until her solitary Bombay, Marseilles & London. reserve. Now, be told himself.

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the little sitting-room, most. The dark, empty house to-around The house was in dark-wered up through the gloom and turned to Iris. He quickened his steps.

"I want seemed to cast a menacing shadow. What could have happen over the pathway. He shivered husband's address," she said. ed? Was Iris in? His heart.

at the sound of his own footsteps "You have been a foolish, impul- gave a great throb and a sense of dread pervaded the whole of on the porch and thought he saw sive child to run away from him.” a ghost lurking in every corner. Iris looked sadly at her coin- his being. He opened the door

He shook himself. Were his sen-panion and drew a breath that: with his latch-key and switched

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oppression 'grew. No one cared

"He doesn't want me. He's pro- "Iris!" he called.

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if he came back to a dark, empty bably congratulating himself on But only the silence of the emouse or if he had any dinner. my departure." pty house answered hika. The

He visioned his home when he and "You silly girl! As if any man light penetrated uncertainly

the Tris had shared it together. In could help but want you. You through the open doors into

imagination he saw the welcoming think the separation has killed his sat alone in the tiny sitting-room; be all right. There's no need to darkened rooms beyond and gave those regions a gloomy and threa-light shining out upon the foot-love, but the chances are that it and stared at each other with worry."

path; saw her open the door to has really taught him to value white faces while the doctor sad With a wildly beating heart, him. He put his hands.

over his

Fou."

nurse fought for the patient's life. Dick entered the room. He bent "Iris, where are" you?" Dick's

eyes; it was but a vision! What Don't," Iris said in a tremulous To Dick the waiting was one long over kis as she lay asleep. She voice was unsteady as he gropedia fool he had been! This way to the next room and

He told himself that she had He switched on the light.

felt

ceased to love him and, therefore, that the wild thumping of

tening aspect.

his it was useless to try and find her

With a sigh he resigned himself to his fate.

heart would suffocate him as went fearfully, from room to room, in mortal dread of what he

"A man begins to appreciate a might find there. But they were girl when he has lost her."

be all neat and orderly. There was soliloquised. "and nothing out of place-nothing when she is beyond his reach."

But Iris was not there! He felt dazed and helpless. What had happened to ber? Where W29 she?

to want

her

voice.

on

nightmare of horror as the hours was very thin, and the pallor of "You do care for him, then?” of that interminable right drag- her small face wrung his heart. she went

The girl did not deny it. Insteadįged endlessly on.

The slender line of her dark eye- bitterly: "Why

The door opened suddenly and brows and long sweeping lashes should I let him know about my the nurse appeared. She looked formed a striking contrast to her child? It belongs to me! I am dishevelled and tired. She gated Dick entered the room. He bent paying for its existence perhaps at Marjorie.

white face, and her rich, black hair, with my own life. He hasn't to want some hot water,” shejmaking an exquisite frame to her suffer for it. Does not the risk said. "Will you get it?""

countenance, lay in short..carling

jam undergoing give me the strong- Marjorie nodded and moved to masses on the pillow. Within the Iris had taken a tiny flat in

er claim? He doesn't want me obey. Dick rose; his face was circle of her left arm lay that the city. Deep down iz

miracle that was his little son. the secret recesses of her heart now-no man would so I shall grey. He turned to the nurse. she realised that she stil

"Is she is she? His voice keep my baby!!! laved

For a long while Dick remained "Iris?" he shoulted desperately. Dick-loved him although she be-

"Dearie, you're doing him an failed him.

with perfectly still, transfixed injustice. You're nervous and "How do I know!" the woman wonder; then he looked at the The tones of his voice died away, lieved him to be the wrong man. silence filled the room. With icy She told herself that he was not "pset. Surely, if you love him, snapped impatiently. "It's a bad nurse. fingers clutching his soul be en-her ideal. He was not the man you can sink your pride and let case; the old story too much

She smiled encouragingly. He

room to room,

tered the lonely kitchen. He Fate had intended for her mate. him know where you are. Most work She's neglected herself drew a deep breath. looked around the familiar apart-She had made the error of suc-young husbands are apt to be and she hasn't the strength of a Iris' eyes fluttered open. With ment them. like one in a daze, cumbing to physical attraction and thoughtless at time. But it's like kitten."

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"Do 1 think that he loves FOU

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it up and turned it over several Dick's could never find happiness that he loved me. Do you think night, but, to Dick, time had ceas Iris turned her gaze to the baby, time. It was in his wife's hand-in wedlock. They had tried it and do you really think?" She led to count. He walked mechani- then she looked back at Dick writing. A letter! What could failed, and the sooner she forgot choked suddenly and looked up at cally, hardly knowing that he Her big blue eyes had grown, soft it mean? With fumbling fingers it the better. That phase of her her companion beseechingly.

and luminous with adoration. he tore open the flap and drew life was past-it was a page that

The first pale glimmer of dawn "Oh, Dickie," she said, breath- had been turned over. She would of course he does! He couldn't was throwing its grey shadows lessly, "Isn't he just the most jout the sheet of notepaper.

never revert to it again. Yet, in help it. He'll worship his wife over the sleeping city. Was that wonderful person? Isn't he mar "Dear Dick" he read, "I can spite of her hard work, she could and baby." (not stand our life together

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“I can't,” abe-cried-anddenly, “1]spellbound, his gaze fixed on-the "Yes," said Dick happily, "he The weeks crept on into months can't bear it any longer. Tell closed door, hope and fear alter-is, but he's not so wonderful -as I am and then, with a shock, the girl him I want him. Tell him I love nately rising and falling in - his you, dear.” ing away to live my own Ke and realised that something was com- bim. Ask him to forgive me and heart. It opened at last: someone Reverently he kissed her white to leave you free. Please do not ing-into-ber life. A great joy—and to come to me this even-spoke to him, but he did not forehead. try to find me. I do not wish took possession of her. The ing"

know.what was said. An eternity "Dickie," she said, shyly, "I

it, and, in any case, you would spirituality of her face deepened. She covered her face with her seemed to go by. Again the door have found the true pathway to POO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG only be wasting your time, as I and seemed to cast a glow upon hands and sobbed wildly while all opened; the doctor touched him romance at last.""

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"We have come out of the Pheme 27721"

my discovery, Good-bye Fours, imagination she saw herself-hold- months found an outlet.

"You may see her now,” he said: depths to find it together," he IRIS." ing her baby in her arma; felt its But Dick did not see Iris that "It was touch and go-thought I said, simply. message: little face pressed to her own undjevening. Instead, he and Marjorie]was going to lose her, but she'll]

*(The End.)

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